This   level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles Islam: Hadith / Muslim scholars Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Islam, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Islam-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IslamWikipedia:WikiProject IslamTemplate:WikiProject IslamIslam-related articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by the Hadith task force. This article is supported by the Muslim scholars task force. Syria Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Syria, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Syria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SyriaWikipedia:WikiProject SyriaTemplate:WikiProject SyriaSyria articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

User:Striver asked me to look at this page. I do not understand in what sense he was Syrian. That he was born in Damascus in 673, and Damascus is now the capital of Syria? [1] Might it not be more accurate to say he was an Umayyad scholar? Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:54, 23 September 2006 (UTC) reply

I removed this line from the last of Dhahabi's teachers: "He said in his last illness while he was in Mecca: "I will die in this illness because the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- promised me that I would die in Mecca." ^[1]" as it is apparently referring to Dhahabi's teacher and not himself. I say this based upon two points. The first is that Dhahabi died in Damascus as seems apparent in Ibn Hajr's description of his death in al-Durar al-Kaaminah 3/338 where he says that Dhahabi died after returning Egypt. Secondly, Ibn Hajr relates the statement refering to dying in Mecca as originating from Al-Abraquhi, also in al-Durar 1/102-3. Supertouch ( talk) 20:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC) reply

I undid three senseless edits by user: 122.166.97.247. Some of this user's edits were blanking and others simply nonsensical. Supertouch ( talk) 08:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC) reply

For people who don't realize this, you don't pronounce the L in Al-Dhahabi, it is written as Al-Dhahabi in Arabic, but it is pronounced Ad-Dhahabi. RussianDewey ( talk) 23:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC) reply

Actually, it would be "adh-Dhahabi" (or "að-Ðahabi"). - HyperGaruda ( talk) 18:24, 19 January 2016 (UTC) reply